ICly, canon updates are handled as though you dropped the character and them reapplied them from the later canon point; after the update is approved, the character will disappear from Sirocco for a length of time of your choosing (somewhere between a day and a week is recommended). When they reappear, it will be to a new room assignment at the Suites... And a second ambush from a god.

From here you have three options: characters can retain all their previously regained memories and the memories of their time in Sirocco, losing only the new memories gained from the canon update; characters can retain their previously regained memories, but lose the memories of Sirocco in addition to the canon update memories; or characters may once again lose all of their memories. Please note that in the latter two cases, memories of their previous time in Sirocco will be part of the character's regains.

You may canon update at any time you choose; there's no minimum time or memory requirement.

To request a canon update, please fill out the following form.

<b>Character:</b> <b>Current Canon Point:</b> <b>New Canon Point:</b> <b>Degree of Memory Loss:</b> <b>Changes:</b> Make note of any significant changes between canon points here, whether it be a difference in personality, abilities, equipment, number of limbs, etc., etc., etc.

This is a list of changes that are brought into play by item requests and technological inventions that could affect your character. To request your own items or mention what your character could invent, go here.

If there is a name and date after the item, the character must remain active until that date for it to become a permanent fixture, else it will disappear when the character drops. If there is no date and name, it is a permanent fixture.


Alchemiter Station
This complicated looking device is used to combine objects to make new objects via a complicated process of punchcard alchemy. To create something via punchcard alchemy, you need a couple things. You need the object's captchalogue code, which only homestuck characters can get (though once gotten anyone can use it.) and you need "Build Grist," which can only be collected by slaying monsters from the homestuck universe. Item costs will be inflated on Anemoi, so this device will be used sparingly.

Bands
What happens when two or more people with a strong relationship work together? In Final Fantasy IV, this is restricted to Palom and Porom's Twincast, where effects much stronger than Black Magic or White Magic alone become possible through their combined magic. In the sequel, this is expanded to any characters with a strong connection. Think of these as the combo techs from Chrono Trigger, for those who know that game. To give examples, it can be anything as simple as A Little Black Magic, where Palom and his not-girlfriend combine their Black Magic to cast a Fira spell instead of Fire, or something insanely bizarre like Palom in the Sky, where Luca uses 'Throw' and Leonora uses 'Thundaga' on Palom, sending him careening into an enemy like a massive electric bullet. Porom finishes this one off with 'Curaga' so Palom isn't murdered horribly by this flagrant abuse of his body.

Any magic system or supernatural technique introduced could be worked into Bands.

El Amor De La Pasion Del Amor - Rex Salazar, June 20th
A telenovela, available on television and the phones to stream/buy.

Elibean Magic
Elibean Magic drills down to three types. Anima Magic involves using spirits to cast elemental spells. Holy Magic involves faith in Elimine (or any higher power) to cast light magic. Elder, or Dark Magic, invites the forces of darkness into a person to cast. Elder is much more taboo if not completely frowned upon, and should be harder to find. Any character is able to cast with a bit of training and the proper tome.

Guilty Gear Magic
With the use of incantations, a character could tap into the "programming code of reality" (game's terminology, not mine) and rewrite a line to produce magic. Magic comes in six predominant elements: fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, and ki. Anyone who knows the incantations could perform magic. While characters do have affinities, the ability to perform magic is not an innate one -- it's more like being more talented at playing a woodwind instrument than playing a string instrument. You'd be better playing a woodwind, but you'd still need to learn how. Fire is the easiest element to master, and lightning is the most difficult.

Item World
Through some EXTREMELY HANDWAVED process, people can metaphysically enter objects, being met with a massive sprawling dungeonesque world filled with floating islands, monsters, treasure and teleporters. It's a very dangerous place, but the further into it one explores and battles, the more powerful the item they're in becomes when they leave. Swords cut better, armor blocks better, coffee makers make better coffee. Anything much bigger than that isn't eligible for item worlding. Escaping can be done every 10 floors, or by using a Mr. Gency's Exit (acquired once every 10 floors).

Lots of training opportunities, people get more badass stuff. Random bonus rooms leading to surreal encounters and possibly getting laid. There's a special rare Mystery Room that sells an anemoi to characters for a large amount of HL, obtained in and spendable only in Item World. This would mainly be a bonus for several days worth of hard training or its equivalent in making more awesome stuff.

Magic Scrolls - Rudolph van Richten, June 20th
Parchments that have a strange texture to them - on the scroll itself is the actual spell written with useful diagrams of how to activate the magic. Once used, the scroll crumbles into dust. Scrolls can be found in ruins or given as rewards for quests. Characters naturally gifted in magic can cast magic from the scrolls naturally without a drain on their energy, those who cannot could study the scrolls to figure out how to trick it into thinking the non-magic user is a mage, but if one isn't careful - the spell fires on the user.

Here is a list of spells that can be found on scrolls. Exceptions are teleportation spells and anything over Level 6. Summoning spells will only summon evil versions of monsters.

Phantom Brave Fighting System - Marona, June 26th
From basic weaponry like swords and axes to mundane items like vases and loaves of bread, they all have special attacks that can be utilized by anyone. An incomplete list is here. The skills themselves can only be used when the character means to, so nobody goes around poisoning others with bread by mistake. Items usually start out with one or three skills unlocked, but more can be unlocked by using the Item World with one skill every ten levels.

The Phantom Zone
A prison sub-dimension and all-around Terrible Place, only accessible through use of a Phantom Zone Projector, one of which just so happens to be built into the Supernova costume. Supernova's teleportation powers are actually just taking a shortcut through the Phantom Zone.

Lab scientists have reverse-engineered it to a degree, allowing for a full range of motion out from the lab, and portable one-shot devices for teleportation back.

Pokécenters
A mid-sized machine that will heal Pokémon while in their pokéballs.

Red Flowers - Misery, September 4th
Simple red flowers that can be found growing around various areas of the game world. The flowers, by themselves, can't do much. They only carry an effect if eaten by Mimigas, who become hulking, demented monsters as a result. However, the flowers can, with sufficient research, be utilized as a similar mutagen on other living beings.

Spellcard System
Spellcards are a deck of cards with runes and patterns. Generally unique to each user, but some people have been known to steal them and use them in their own attack patterns. For people who have an aesthetic, hobby-based interest in magic casting, or who simply want to duel without worrying about possible side effects like death, the spell card can be used as a form of combat between two or more magic or psychic wielders. Users design their own cards, with the primary focus being less on destructive power and more on complex design and imagery. Although making it harder for your opponent to dodge without cheating outright is a plus. Each card can only be used once per duel; the first person to either run out of cards or get knocked out of the battle and otherwise incapacitated loses.

tl;dr - BULLETS! EEEEEVERYWHERE!

In the event you need to contact a mod, here is the information you will need in order to get in touch with one! Use one of these methods or post here.

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The continent of Marin currently has one known location.

Memoria Arx Sirocco
Sirocco is a modern-day city located on a peninsula inside a harbor. The majority of the urban city is located on the peninsula, with a developing city on the other end of the harbor. Suburbs surround both city areas. The peninsula itself is shaped like a whale with strange elevations. At water level, the ground is mostly flat or barely sloped at all. A few blocks in from the water, the ground slopes up sharply, the roads being varying degrees of steep, quickly reaching roughly 50 meters above sea level. The rest of the peninsula is a plateau from there; it has the occasional small hill, but nothing compared to the sharp divide between the city and the waterfront.

The most notable feature is the last large hill in the center of the city. Displaying the same sharp divide between the city and the waterfront, the hill rises to offer a view of the entire city from its highest point. At the top of the hill is the star-shaped fortress commonly referred to as The Lab. Originally an old military installation, the fortress has been repurposed into a scientific lab, with most studies focusing on the anemoi. Ermis Suites, the hotel that has been repurposed as temporary free housing for newcomers, is a few blocks away from the base of the hill.

Many buildings are connected by underground tunnels and above-ground pedestrian bridges; it is possible to go from the city to the waterfront without actually stepping foot outside, although it wouldn't be a direct path.

Locations in Sirocco of particular relevance to Player Characters:

-Emiya Manor, a residence regained by Shirou Emiya (wontdieifkilled). It's a large, expensive-looking, Japanese-style house located in an upper-class district of Sirocco. It has a courtyard, a guest room separate from the main house, and a shed. It's also protected by a bounded field, implemented by Kiritsugu, that alerts its occupants when anyone enters the property unbidden and with hostile intent.

-Ermis Suites, the hotel that oh-so-kindly houses our immigrants. More information can be found here.

-Justice League Sirocco Headquarters, home to Sirocco's Justice League, founded by Booster Gold (canthandleacape). For more information on the organization and the building, see here.

-The Lab, a fortress on the highest hill in town, repurposed into a scientific lab. It is here that characters are first brought when they arrive, and where they bring anemoi to be processed for memories.

-New Roots, a flower shop opened and operated by Rosalia Rossellini (healeveryone). It's located a few blocks west of the Ermis Suites.

-Sirocco Operation Society Headquarters, a small base located at Sirocco's outskirts. The SOS is dissatisfied with the current leadership of Sirocco and provides safe haven for villain characters. For more details, see here.

-Sundollar Coffee, a coffee chain that is basically Starbucks with the serial numbers filed off. There are two Sundollars in Sirocco, located across the street from one another. (Currently temporary; becomes permanent on August 4th.)

-A Training Center, opened by Ky Kiske (ridethelightning).

For memory-related questions, please go to its respective page.

There's a new home in town, and that island's name is Marin. You wake up on the outskirts or inside of (Memoria Arx) Sirocco, the major city. Of course, there's one slight niggling factor. Okay it's more major than that. You can't remember a thing aside from your name. Name meaning first name OR last name OR nickname OR you get the point. Friends? Family? Abilities? Nothing but a haze.

Every time there's a new arrival, the sky overhead changes, becoming another color and displaying odd weather for roughly a minute before fading. Characters are brought to the Lab, explained the basic situation of both their new affliction and the area.

As it stands, there is something of a population issue. Roughly seventy years ago, the remaining residents awoke, finding more than half the population missing in a disappearance still unexplained. Some formed groups to explore beyond Sirocco to search for survivors; those that returned reported creatures they've never seen before. Within a few years, they began to approach the city, although consistently kept away by local militia.

The population has been built back up in order to function at the level of a small city, but beyond the community and defense against current threats, there is little room left for anything else. With such a population issue, any change or improvement to be enacted is usually shot down for one of two reasons - not enough people, or not enough protection against the creatures. However, with newcomers mysteriously appearing, they can go instead, searching ruins and clearing areas for humans to move back into.

Of course, this isn't the first time newcomers have arrived, nor do they expect them to do it out of the goodness of their hearts. First, newcomers are treated as government employees for this reason and given a place to stay, food, clothing, phones in order to stay in contact, and a monthly stipend to cover other expenses. Secondly, it's been confirmed that out in the wilderness is the easiest place to find anemoi...

Is Anemoi comm-based or journal-based?
Anemoi is a comm-based game. RP posts will go in anemoi, OOC intros, memes, hiatuses and all that go in anemoi_ooc. In the game itself, please tag your character if they comment on a post.

How are memories tracked? What order are things remembered in?
OOCly, memories are counted as percentages. The order can be whatever you'd like it to be.

Why percentages?
Active characters are meant to recover all of their memories, ideally within a year. Percentages give a tangible progress bar OOCly.

How many characters can I app?
Currently, the limit is placed at five characters, with a maximum two from the same fandom.

What's the policy on AUs / fandom OCs / OCs?
Fandom OC's: This is currently defined as main characters whose personality changes depending on choices and actions taken by the player, for instance Commander Shepard of Mass Effect. There is suitable background, it's simply knowing what personality is taken and elaborating. We do not accept "Fandom OC's" in the sense of an original character from a canon universe.
AU's: Canon AUs are fine. For instance, DC Comics recently rebooted their franchise; playing from the older books are fine. Fanmade AU's made of speculative history are not.
OC's: We do accept OC's. Keep in mind that you will have to write out the full history for the character, including any unusual abilities the character may possess and the like.

What happens if I app a previously dropped character?
You will have the choice of either resetting the character or playing with their memories and relationships intact.

What happens when characters die?
Characters are put on the luxury train to the afterlife! Should a character want to remain living (and therefore remain in the game) all they have to do is get off the train when it makes a courtesy stop at Sirocco. If they don't get off, they will be dropped from the game.

What's activity check like?
Activity check is every two weeks. To meet it, a character needs ten comments with two characters.

Missing one activity check is a warning. Missing two in a row results in removal from the game. Missing three out of five (so warning, pass, warning, pass, warning) results in removal from the game.

My character has a degenerative condition, like a disease or gradual power loss. Does this get stopped?
Yes, but if you'd prefer to play with the condition still in place, you're free to do so.

My character has more than one set of memories. How do I handle that?
There are three approaches to this. First, both sets of memories are remembered at once. So a 1% regain would be 1% of Character A and 1% of Character B. Secondly, half and half - Character A gets 50%, Character B gets 50%. Finally, you could have Character A remember only their own memories, but remember the entirety of Character B when they remember the whole "having a second set of memories" business.

Would it be possible for people from other worlds to learn each others' magic, particularly if said magic didn't depend on an innate ability?
Yes, characters could learn each other's magic. We just ask that characters don't master new arts.

I'm kind of interested in running an AIM log, but I'm not really sure how to do it! Help?
Luckily for you, the most esteemed prof has written a handy-dandy guide on how to make running an AIM log easy for you and fun for your players!

The game is now open! Post here upon acceptance to be added to the game.

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